noun
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A film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner.
adjective
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Of, related to, or based on documents.
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Which serves to document (record and:or illustrate) a subject.
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(of a film, book etc) Presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter.
Examples of documentary in a Sentence
There is documentary evidence of a castle at Nantwich in the 13th century.
Marie Jeanne, in fact, took great care of the child's person, and there is documentary evidence to prove that he had air and food.
The making of beads was probably practised at Venice from a very early period, but the earliest documentary evidence bearing on the subject does not appear to be of earlier date than the 14th century, when prohibitions were directed against those who made of glass such objects as were usually made of crystal or other hard stones.
He was in the process of filming a documentary called The Ocean's Deadliest.
By a comparison of these two lines of evidence we can approximate to a text current about 300 B.C. or later; but for any errors which had entered into the common source of these two forms of the text we possess no documentary means of detection whatsoever.
Yet even so the want of complete documentary evidence upon which to base conclusions has vitiated all but the most recent of the countless monographs and histories that have appeared on the subject.
Any documentary analysis of the Pentateuch may be right or wrong; but archaeology contributes nothing either one way or another as to the answer.
The first published was Documentary Annals of the Reformed Church of England from 1546 to 1716, which appeared in 1839.
She has worked as a documentary film maker for many years.
The actor's appearance was key in the making of the documentary.
The special edition release contains a bonus behind-the-scenes documentary When Sharks Attack!
The bonus material isn't exceptional but there is an excellent hour-long documentary.
Only two ideas, maximum, were to be made to fit into a half-hour documentary; anything more taxed the brain.
I felt useless ' An undercover documentary to be shown this week will reignite the debate about pupils ' behavior.
His ' unique ' management style in this multi-award winning spoof fly-on-the-wall documentary had office workers squirming on their sofas.
There was also a good TV documentary based on the book.
Of course I was taping the Dylan documentary that was concurrently on BBC2.
A documentary about the making of the DCC swimsuit calendar is shown on ESPN every year as well.
Past projects have included creating music for the documentary Manufacturing Consent, MEK Technologies, Agri-Food Canada, the US State Department, the Theatre Ballet of Canada, and the Ottawa Ballet.
Edith Iglaur's book Denison's Ice Road inspired a 1999 History Channel hour documentary called Ice Road Truckers.
This documentary aired as part of the Suicide Mission series.
However, it's not just the merchandise pawned or sold by customers that makes this documentary interesting, it's also the shop's owners and employees who make this reality program one-of-a-kind.
Paranormal State is a show that functions as one part drama, another part documentary.
Nevertheless, Yriarte, in his book on the Malatesta and Rimini, asserted that there was documentary evidence to prove that Isotta was unable to sign her own name.
Comedy agent Ian Franklin is to be the subject of a fly-on-the wall documentary.
The documentary encapsulates the ethos of the man quite remarkably.
Upon receipt I will promptly send adequate documentary evidence of the basis of my bursary entitlement.
His current PhD research focuses on how documentary film can be used for design research.
Participants are given tasks to complete under staff supervision and in their own time culminating with the production of a short documentary film.
The piece has been picked up by MTV's documentary division, which is committed to working with established filmmakers in exploring uncharted territory.
David Thompson David Thompson began his career at the BBC as a documentary filmmaker.
We also have several documentary filmmakers on the permanent staff.
I remember seeing a television documentary of Cole Porter on Canada's Bravo Channel in 1980 which left nothing to the viewer's imagination.
In effect, these largely improvised scenes border on documentary with the kids drawing on horrifyingly true-to-life experiences.
She is furious that no one will fund her hard-hitting documentary about a choir of reformed junkies.
You will look ever so macho in the documentary going knit one pearl one.
But increasingly, " news " and documentary television has been reshaped to reflect the obsession with entertainment.
Evidence of identity With every new application for benefit you must also provide documentary proof of your identity.
The documentary was more reportage and reminiscence than analysis, but none the worse for that.
The Passenger Much like its discourse on documentary reportage, the film's formal critique of the thriller came straight from the Left Bank.
The NCP have produced documentary evidence of the massive vote rigging.
In Nonfiction, a hack documentary filmmaker abuses the trust of a high school slacker and his family.
The treble soloist is the stunning Quintin Beer who recently featured in a BBC Radio 4 documentary about Allegri's famous Miserere.
The 44-year-old was killed by a stingray whilst filming a documentary off Port Douglas in northern Queensland.
She is also sponsoring a short documentary on Scottish wildcats by a small film company based in Kent.
The documentary was immediately condemned by EFL teachers as evidence of increasing government xenophobia against English teachers.
As a measure of precaution, he procured documentary evidence of the rebellious intentions of the raja and the begum, to the validity of which Impey obligingly lent his extra-judicial sanction.
In the sporosac, however, the medusa-individual has become so degenerate that even the documentary proof, so to speak, of its medusoid nature may have been destroyed, and only circumstantial evidence of its nature can be produced.
Hubert and Mauss point out that Robertson Smith is far from having established either the historical or the logical connexion between the common meal and the other types of sacrifice; the simplest Semitic forms known to us are the most recently recorded; further their simplicity may mean no more than documentary insufficiency, and in any case does not imply any priority; the piaculum is found side by side with the communion at all times.
The great pioneer in the path of independent research, which, with the intelligent use of documentary and historical evidence, has led to so vast an increase in our acquaintance with the Roman Catacombs, was Padre Marchi of the Society of Jesus.